[Users] Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned?

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "lofyer" <lofyer at gmail.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 10:47:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned?
> 
> On 2013/8/24 15:46, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "lofyer" <lofyer at gmail.com>
> >> To: users at ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 10:36:12 AM
> >> Subject: [Users] Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned?
> >>
> >> Is the feature Local Authentication abandoned in 3.3?
> >> If not, what should I do to use it?
> > Question is unclear.
> >
> > What do you call "Local Authentication", after setup can't you login using
> > admin user?
> Sorry for that.
> I mean, use users in /etc/passwd to login.
> 

I never knew this is was an option.

Or you mean something new that was planned somewhere?

I am against of using native authentication for applications, as it enables more privileges that users should have.

The proper way to do that is to use directory services, such as LDAP and integrate the nss of system and application to use that directory.

Regards,
Alon